Jess Walsh (Victoria, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Early Childhood Education) Share this | Hansard source

Thank you, Senator Duniam, for the question. It has been a really distressing time in early childhood education as these devastating allegations have been brought forward. It is a really difficult time for all of those families of children affected, families who have children in early childhood education and care and really the whole community that is watching what's going on. We think it's really important that we use every lever that we have to make sure that we can keep children safe in early childhood education and care and make sure that parents have confidence that they are safe too.

We have introduced, as you know, really important Commonwealth legislation to cut funding from those providers who put safety ahead of profit. At the same time, we are working shoulder to shoulder with the states and territories—